ENROLLING ELECTORS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 6

ENROLLING ELECTORS.

PUINTS WORTH NOTING. The difficulties attached to becoming an elector, in the way of having one's name placed on the roll, seem to be great, as the Chief Electoral Officer has found it necessary to circulate among the various Registrars of Electors a notice containing the following information:— Claimants must be British subjects by birth or naturalisation, must not be less than twenty-one years of age at the time of making the claim, must have been a resident of New Zealand for twelve months, and a resident of the district in which they claim registration for three months, or, if enrolled in another electorate, one month's residence qualifies them for enrolment. Name, address, and occupation ("spinster," "married,"or "widow," instead of occupation in the case of a female), must be given "in full," and the claimant must sign the claim for enrolment form himself. Anyone else signing for him, even at hi 3 own request, is liable to a fine of £SO. The signature of a claimant must be witnessed by an elector of the district, Registrar, or Postmaster. The witness must not sign without having actually seen the claimant write his name, or without hearing the person signing declare that the signature is in his own handwriting. Any person making a false declaration is liable to a fine not exceeding £2O, or to three months' imprisonment.